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matrixrefugeeChapter of HP 6 I'm on: I finished it this morning...
I'm shocked....
How could JKR do that?!
If I was going to kill off the father-figure character, I'd wait till closer to the end of the series, not in the sixth book of seven.
I'm not sure as if I like HP 6 as much as I did when I started reading it, but it's no fault of the writer. This goes to show how powerful a writer is, if she can break the reader's heart and still give the reader cause for hope.
Problem is, I've had too many fannish losses this year: Much as I like and admire Neil Gaiman, I'd like to poke him a little for killing off Morpheus!Dream in "The Sandman". The MxO bumped off Morpheus (Quoth the Merovingian, as he occupies my headspace, "I 'ad nozzing to do wizz zat."). Now JKR bumps off Dumbledore. And Snape does the bumping off, thus joining the ranks of the "I'm not sure if I like this guy anymore" starting to form in my mind.
As I said to Puck last night when I was speaking with her via AIM: "I think part of the reason why I'm being really sensitive about this has something to do with Pope John Paul II passing away. That was something I knew was going to happen, and which I had no control over (though I have to admit, I was somewhat relieved, since it means his sufferings are now over). But fandom... that's my escape when the real world gets to be too much... and then to have to deal with fannish grieving, or causes thereof..." Plus, July isn't an easy month for me: too many painful memories from breaking up with my ex-fiance, even though the final cut didn't come until August 3rd.
This is why, on occassion, fanfiction is better than canon, if the writer of said fanfiction can find a way to work around or tease out the canon nits that irk her, or find a logical way to make it an alternate universe fic.
I wasn't crazy about Dumbledore, but I liked him the way one likes/loves one's grandfather or some kindly older male father-figure you've gotten attached to. Maybe because I lost my beloved paternal grandfather, my dad's dad, Leo when I was only five, I've always been drawn to kindly older male characters in stuff (Councillor Hamann in the "Matrix" series is another for-instance). Thus losing Dumbledore is almost a real loss for me, as a fan. And I'm tired of losing characters this year. I really am. I'm almost tempted to avoid continuing serieses for the rest of this year, to avoid anymore canon losses, and to avoid being discomfited when the authors continue to demonize not-so-nice guys she liked/used to like. What's wrong with the guy doing something to redeem himself once in a while?!
Anyone remember the quote from "The Sandman" where Death is frustrated and she asks Lucian the Librarian if he has any cheerful books to read?
I'm shocked....
How could JKR do that?!
If I was going to kill off the father-figure character, I'd wait till closer to the end of the series, not in the sixth book of seven.
I'm not sure as if I like HP 6 as much as I did when I started reading it, but it's no fault of the writer. This goes to show how powerful a writer is, if she can break the reader's heart and still give the reader cause for hope.
Problem is, I've had too many fannish losses this year: Much as I like and admire Neil Gaiman, I'd like to poke him a little for killing off Morpheus!Dream in "The Sandman". The MxO bumped off Morpheus (Quoth the Merovingian, as he occupies my headspace, "I 'ad nozzing to do wizz zat."). Now JKR bumps off Dumbledore. And Snape does the bumping off, thus joining the ranks of the "I'm not sure if I like this guy anymore" starting to form in my mind.
As I said to Puck last night when I was speaking with her via AIM: "I think part of the reason why I'm being really sensitive about this has something to do with Pope John Paul II passing away. That was something I knew was going to happen, and which I had no control over (though I have to admit, I was somewhat relieved, since it means his sufferings are now over). But fandom... that's my escape when the real world gets to be too much... and then to have to deal with fannish grieving, or causes thereof..." Plus, July isn't an easy month for me: too many painful memories from breaking up with my ex-fiance, even though the final cut didn't come until August 3rd.
This is why, on occassion, fanfiction is better than canon, if the writer of said fanfiction can find a way to work around or tease out the canon nits that irk her, or find a logical way to make it an alternate universe fic.
I wasn't crazy about Dumbledore, but I liked him the way one likes/loves one's grandfather or some kindly older male father-figure you've gotten attached to. Maybe because I lost my beloved paternal grandfather, my dad's dad, Leo when I was only five, I've always been drawn to kindly older male characters in stuff (Councillor Hamann in the "Matrix" series is another for-instance). Thus losing Dumbledore is almost a real loss for me, as a fan. And I'm tired of losing characters this year. I really am. I'm almost tempted to avoid continuing serieses for the rest of this year, to avoid anymore canon losses, and to avoid being discomfited when the authors continue to demonize not-so-nice guys she liked/used to like. What's wrong with the guy doing something to redeem himself once in a while?!
Anyone remember the quote from "The Sandman" where Death is frustrated and she asks Lucian the Librarian if he has any cheerful books to read?
